Don't sweat it. Pretty soon crack will be in here shilling for his blog, and then we'll have a blog entry linked in a comment to a blog entry discussing a tweet. Tweet that and I'm sure we'll break a part of the internet.

What's with the career death wish of all these Hollywood stars always dissing half there audience? More than half really. The movie industry is dying in no small part to the fact that all these so-called stars are pissing off the people who pay to see them.

Somehow the image of Steve Martin as a claymation villain in a Rankin/Bass TV special battling the holidays one at a time just popped into my head. I'd bet a shiny new quarter that he's already pitched it. (If I was Mitt, I'd bet $10,000.)

That's a good catch. Increasingly, I've noticed, a lot of people these days feel nervous about saying "Christmas" in public. They feel it's like referring to blacks as "colored," something no right-thinking person would do.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles was a great movie because of John Candy. Watch it again and try to imagine anyone other than John Candy, and you'll see that Martin's performance is only good. Candy, though, is the heart of the movie.

Martin's performance in Parenthood is much the same. He makes faces and that is to pass for funny.

Do you think it possible that someone like Steve Martin would ever say something funny about the wretched excesses of militant atheists?

And what would that funny joke be?

Rcocean wrote:

Funny how Steve never tweets jokes about the absurd use of the word "Holiday" for Christmas. Or how funny left-wing political correctness is.

Do yo follow his twitter account 24/7? Do you know he hasn't? I do recall he has had a few riffs on political correctness over the years, including a bit in the Steve Martin penned movie "Bowfinger" w/ Eddie Murphy.

What goes around . . . .Early Steve was funny, hilarious at times, making fun of the status quo; all those total rectangles who just didn't get it. Then he, and a great many of his colleagues, became status quo. Unlike their old-school targets they are tragically oblivious to how unhip, uncool, and unfunny they are. At least my old man knew when he was being mocked, and was capable of a vicious, blistering comeback (when he could be bothered). This sad tweet is just an echo of the marching orders from the status quo.

I'm curious - why would anyone have or follow a Twitter account? Unless, maybe, you are married to the person with the account?

I primarily work in advertising. I use Twitter as a news feed for things related to my work. It's not the pithy one-liners that are valuable to me, but the links to work-related items that I get exposed to.